From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 25 21:53:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A77F816A4CE for ; Sat, 25 Dec 2004 21:53:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 610D643D4C for ; Sat, 25 Dec 2004 21:53:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: by chen.org.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D8C9F56457; Sun, 26 Dec 2004 10:53:22 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 10:53:22 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: James Message-ID: <20041225215322.GE3143@osiris.chen.org.nz> References: <20041224065512.29367.qmail@rahul.net> <200412240326.16142.james@idea-anvil.net> <20041224161643.GA40553@ei.bzerk.org> <200412241729.06087.james@idea-anvil.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200412241729.06087.james@idea-anvil.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail running on localhost 25? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 21:53:24 -0000 On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 05:29:05PM -0700, James wrote: > On Friday 24 December 2004 09:16 am, Ruben de Groot wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 03:26:15AM -0700, James typed: > > > Hello, > > > > > > Use: > > > sendmail_enable="none" > > > > > > This will disable all sendmail processes. > > > > This will also disable those annoying daily, weekly and montly > > messages recieved from cronjobs. > > > > Who wants to read about your disks filling up, attempts to break into > > your server and other futilities anyway ;-) > > Thanks for the heads up on that.... Is there a way to make cron use something > other then sendmail? If you specify in /etc/periodic.conf: daily_output="/var/log/daily.log" weekly_output="/var/log/weekly.log" monthly_output="/var/log/monthly.log" The logs from periodic will go to those files instead. -- Jonathan Chen ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted." -- Thomas B. Reed